[HOT] How to fully cover a grid square.

Suzan Reed suzan at suzanreed.com
Wed May 13 06:10:21 UTC 2015


I agree. A grid in both JOSM and ID would be a big help. With numbers and 
or letters to navigate.

Suzan

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On May 12, 2015 6:36:35 PM Steve Bower <sbower at gmavt.net> wrote:

> Like John & Tom, in JOSM I set the scale bar to 30m, then use Ctrl-Up and
> Ctrl-Down to move systematically down & up columns. After zooming in to
> work on an area use use "zoom to previous" (8 key) multiple times to get
> back to my 30m scale, then continue up or down the column.
>
> But a grid background at 30m scale that fits my monitor would be sweet.
>
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Tom McDonald <tmcd123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Simliar to John, but at 30m. I find using a consistent zoom level helps
> > you notice buildings since they will be a consistent size. Thanks John for
> > the <ctrl>. I had been using mouse with constant check to the latitude ;-)
> >
> > For finding buildings, I find it really useful to have a filter
> > building=*, with Hide, and toggle it on/off after I think I have all the
> > buildings in a village. Ones you have missed really show up with the
> > rectangles gone.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:45 AM, miiick at yahoo.com.au <miiick at yahoo.com.au>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Dear everybody,
> >>
> >> I am looking for suggestions on how different people ensure that they
> >> have looked at the entire contents of a mapping square.  e.g. How do you
> >> ensure you have looked at the whole square and found all buildings.
> >>
> >> At the moment I do a lot of panning and zooming and cover a square in a
> >> fairly random manner.  I would like to have more structured method to
> >> ensure I have covered a square.  Something like a transparent grid overlay
> >> for JOSM.  I know that a task can be split and I have done that to a few
> >> squares but have also worked on larger squares.
> >>
> >> I am using JOSM and am able to figure out how to use all of the
> >> functions, sometimes I just don't know what function I am looking for.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Michael.
> >>
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